The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-02

49, l-AONA-
er letter, in which L emhody the
speech of Senator Brown, of Jack
sun, on Joint Resolution No. O.
The Senator is awake to the inter
ests of his Mason county constitu-
ents, aud of his whole District, as
we'll Said Resolution is in the
language, following:
Senate Joint Resolution, ere
qnesting the Senators and Repre-
sentatives In this State in Congress
To use. their influence to secure an
appropriation from Congress TO aid
in the erection of suitable monu-
ment to commemorate the battle of
Point Pleasant, fought October 10Th,
IVA
WHEREAS, The battle of Point
Pleasant, fought on the 10th day of
October, 1774, which has been de
scribed by Bancroft as "the most
bloody and best contested in the
annals of forest warfare" and which
has been by historians designated
as virtually the first in the series
of those, brilliant achievements
which burst the bonds of British
tyranny" and in which was spill
ed the first blond in the sacred
cause of American Liberty;" and
which Is universally recognized by
the people as an event of the great
eft Importance and interest to this
country. Therefore,
ResOired by the Legislature of Vest
ITirginia:
That the Senators and Represen-
tatlves of this State in Congress be
and they are hereby requested to
Use their influence to secure an ap
preparation from Congress to aid in
the erection of suitable monument
f. commemorate the said battle, at
Point Pleasant.
Nh. BRowN, said:
1.-THE Legislature of this State,
some years ago, appropriated SO. 500
to aid in this enterprise, which
sum, together with money then
contributed, by individual generos-
ity, was placed at interest, and is
in the hands of the treasurer of the
Point Pleasant Monument Associa-
tion; but the amount, in all about
$4,000, am told, is too small to
erect a memorial worthy of the
event.
The citizen soldiery of Virginia,
at the call of public duty, left their
homes east of the mountains, and
with fiint-lock rifles, and such pro-
visions only, as few pack horses
could carry, and the wild game of
the woods, penetrated on foot, the
trackless forests, for hundreds of
niles, in country of savage foes
OF the great battle that ensued on
the 10th, of October. 1774, at Point
Pleasant, and of the valor of the
men who fought and fell there on
that bloody day, need not speak
to Senators of West Virginia, for
in early life we learned tho story of
that conflict, and are all familiar
with its details, and know how i'm
portant was that victory, on more
than one account, to the safety of
tine country then established by
the white people. It has been just
ly regarded as the harbinger of the
Revolution, and it was the last
great organized effort of Indian
hostility east of the Ohio. In this
expedition the hardy sons of Vir-
ginia, drove back the foes to civ
iIized settlement from vast region
of country, the richest in the world,
by nature, and this was followed
not many years later, by the more
than princely gift by Virginia, of
her vast possessions northwest of
the river Ohio, to the United States,
which region to-day contributes so
much to the wealth, power, and
glory of this nation. Yet the rude
storms of one hundred and thirteen
winters, have been allowed to beat
upon the unmarked graves of the
martyrs who gave their lives thus
in sacrifice to the growing spirit of
civilization; whilst the honored
names of the men of that pioneer
army, live in their country's histo-
ry, in every part of this great land
of the free, and their patriotic blood
warns the hearts of our kindred,
wherever the children of the moth
er of States and statesmen dwell
Now. in this age of wealth and
peace, whilst our national govern
ment is engaged in the laudable
work of embellishing our history as
a nation by building costly monu
ments, to the memory of our de.
parted chiefs of more recent wars,
would it not be most fitting and
proper. that this government should
of its surplus funds. grant us a rea-
sonable sum, to aid US, suitably to
commemorate the deeds of the fall
en- heroes of Point Pleasant, by a